English 2060E Lecture Notes - Fred Wah, Frank Davey, Warren Tallman
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In his overview of canadian poetry for the cambridge companion, david staines claims that tish revolutionized canadian poetry in the early 1960s as the group was the first. Staines goes on to note their influence on colleagues such as bp nichol, michael ondaatje, and margaret atwood. For this reason we begin the course with tish, even though there were other little magazines producing poetry and criticism across the country at the same time. Tish was a poetry newsletter produced by bowering and fellow ma students at. Ubc, who formed an editorial collective, and disseminated writing-in-process that reflected aesthetic debates over the american new poetry. Bowering"s writing was permanently marked by the community"s and the journal"s engagement with aesthetic theories, especially those theories manifesting a concern for immediacy rather than realism, and the journal"s policy of publishing work-in-progress. As jason wiens, following olson"s maximus poems, puts it he spread[s] words, words, words all over everything (89).
